Web n point Oh!

Long before Jason Calacanis’s prank, Web 3.0 was supposed to be “the semantic web.” So when I received an invite to this talk, I had to forward it on to Dave, especially in light of this post. The inside joke is, Dave or I have been doing vertical search professionally since 2000. And if there is one thing we’ve learned:

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The semantic web will relay all human knowledge between computers, leaving you and me and all of California with nothing to do but eat at McDonald’s. The resulting need for ginormous fries will lead the best and brightest into Potato Farming.

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In fact, how many iterations does the “Semantic Web” need to go through before people realize that it isn’t going to work? It’s the web’s version of computer science’s “Artificial Intelligence” (current incarnation: “Natural Language Processing.”)